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The Dark and the Wicked 2020
I feel this film somehow unjustly gets crammed in the Ari Aster/Horror=Trauma niche. Don't get me wrong, I love that niche a lot, but The Dark and the Wicked deserves praise for its own merits.
It is a film that felt to me like the build up to a jump square without providing the actual scare. Sure, it'll have you jump out of your seat a couple of times, but what dominates is a sense of creeping dread that'll leave…
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Chungking Express 1994
I love the stupidity of holding on to what has moved on.
I love the smallness of the biggest emotion we know.
I love the pain that doesn't seem to leave but you know somehow it will.
I love seeing love.
And I love how Wong Kar-Wai manages to capture all of the above and mold it into a piece of visual poetry, instilled with the melancholy, pain, joy, frivolity and promise our species' most powerful four letter word possesses.…
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Before Sunrise 1995
The best love poem ever filmed.
Sweet without being sugary.
Heartfelt without being sappy.
A big heart shaped slice of perfection.
